If you ve not heard, the world is entering a new epoch unofficially named Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. With that odd moniker has come equally odd and dangerous thinking that puts human greed ahead of conserving nature.

Last week we published a letter from our pal and former Times columnist Neil Campbell, who suggested that municipal council meetings should take place during the evening rather than during the daytime, as they do currently.

Spring came in February. Winter followed in March. What April will bring is anyone s guess.
This winter s wild weather swings confirm for many that our climate is changing drastically. Probably, but it is not quite that simple.

In all the recent dark and depressing news about governments, and the people who run them, comes a pinprick of light. Small and distant like a far away star in the night sky, but enough to give hope that common sense has not been completely extinguished.

In the fall of 2016, jaws hit floors around the world as an anti-establishment businessman with no relevant experience, a reputation as a bully and penchant for shouting slogans rather than talking about anything substantive, was elected president of the

I remember the Columbine school shooting very clearly, the media coverage of it, that is.
Perhaps that s because, in the spring of 1999, I was a 16-year-old high school student, the same age as some of those killed in the massacre.

There are few refuges during a brutal winter; so few places to hide and stay calm and warm.
It s not the weather that has made this winter brutal. It has had its violent ups and downs but it is winter weather we have been getting used to over the past fe

I first met Lorraine McNeil fairly early on in my tenure with the Times. I went to her home on Horseshoe Lake to interview her and her friend Maureen James -- known, in comedy duo format, as Lo and Mo for a story for the paper.

The story of four Grade 5 students at Archie Stouffer Elementary School being proactive in finding a solution to their conflict is an inspiring one. It was because of their efforts and support of adults in their lives that more than 50 girls came togethe

Onto the computer screen jumps Vlad Putin, bare chested, taking in the sun in a remote part of Siberia during his vacation last summer. It was one in a portfolio of photos dumped onto the Internet by Russian state photographers.

Generally speaking, very few people get enough sleep on regular basis. We have all experienced the pressures of trying to do just one more thing before we turn in for the night. Sometimes, we get caught surfing the Internet or watching one more episode o

January is gone, and with it Blue Monday, dubbed the most miserable day of the year, and Bell s Let s Talk day, a day devoted to an awareness campaign aimed at helping to reduce the stigma attached to challenges with mental health (also known as emotio

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